Reply To: Traffic dropped again after indexing fix?

[Nathan]

Yeah, that’s been my experience too. The “settle down” thing is only true half the time, the other half it just looks like Google’s doing a little re-shuffle and your traffic eats dirt for no good reason. If it’s a decent page and it only tanks right after reindexing, I usually suspect the page got re-evaluated and didn’t like what it saw. Not always the fix itself, more like the whole URL got reprocessed and lost whatever little momentum it had. Also, axelrowan’s point about borderline pages is dead on. If it was only barely hanging on before, a cleanup can expose that pretty fast. Not saying that’s always it, just… seen it enough times to not get excited when a page finally gets picked up.